Sunday, January 23, 2011

Extreme floods are just the beginning

by Renfrey Clarke from Green Left
If a city drowns beneath a once-in-a-hundred-years flood, that's weather. Such things have happened in the past.

But when hundred-year floods start happening every few decades, that's no longer just weather. The dice have become loaded for different outcomes. Climate — that is, the average of weather — is changing.